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Blogs a hit in British paper

British newspaper The Guardian has started publishing weblogs, and one of the first out of the blocks is Gamesblog. All the main platforms are covered, including PC, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Naturally there's a British slant, so expect to read about lots of soccer sims. With three contributors, postings come thick and fast, even on weekends.

MSNBC has launched Newsbot, an automated tool that collects and displays news from the web. Search by keyword or browse by category, including world, technology, entertainment and most popular, with a list of the stories you've read displayed at the bottom of the page. There are other versions of the service for several of countries.

All Headline News provides a similar service, although goes one better by providing the facility to track news topics of your choice in RSS format. Select a keyword and AHN will monitor news sites for stories making reference to it.

In many respects, IceRocket is just another "next Google". However, this meta-search enables you to load pages (in a small frame) from within the search results. If that seems like overkill, you can just look at the thumbnail that accompanies most listings. IceRocket also displays the ranking each listing had in each of the search engines used. Other features include a news search, image search and price comparison engine.